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I converted my handwriting into a TrueType font:

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You can download the Windows version of it as shareware from Simtel or from here.

Please pay for commercial usage of this font. Many of the example users listed below have paid lots of money for this font.

Flowers Direct Ltd. used it without permission and were extremely rude when I contacted them. The design agency who actually used the font were quite nice through and apologised for using it.
Filofax also have used it without permission on their web page and in one of their catalogues.
Delta Airlines used it.
Some hotel has printed their entire brochure in it.
Some other hotel just advertised in Sainsbury's Magazine using my font.
This could be the first use of my font on product packaging.
Some heart charity used it on a t-shirt.
McVitie's (Penguin (detail)) used it as did Mars (Malteser's and Quality Street).
Someone (David J. Bodycombe) used it in the Metro newspaper several times but stopped when it was pointed out that they might have to pay for it.
There's a restaurant in Hong Kong called Fat Angelo's which uses it, and apparently has a big neon sign done in my handwriting.
eFinancialNews use it.
Kettle Chips use it.
Some wine merchant uses it.
The UK Independence Party use it.
That fine, high-quality train company, Thameslink use it.
Some stationery supplier uses it.
Salcombe use it in their tourist bumf.
The top guy at Oxford Instruments signs his name in my handwriting.
Some generic holiday ad.
Charities use it.
Archadeck uses it.

The 'ReadMe' file that comes with the font:

This font was generated from tidied-up traced scans of my handwriting,
and, when printed out doesn't look too unlike real writing.
This is the fourth release of my font "Handwriting", and the second PC
release. This release includes a recoding of the font to fit in with
Win95 fonts - this means that Smart Quote in Word now work!

Installation: Use pkunzip to decompress the file handwr.zip. Use the
Control Panel Fonts tool to include the new font files

Status: The font "Handwriting" is © 1994-1999 Henry Bloomfield. It can
be used freely for non-commercial use. For use in any commercial
application, published work, or work which is to be sold, a licence must
be bought before use from me. Licences can be obtained from the address
below.

Distribution: You are free to distribute this archive so long as this
text file is distributed with the archive, the font files have not been
modified, and it is understood that the font's copyright remains with the
original author.

Contact:
Henry Bloomfield
henry_bloomfield@[remove-this-bit]yahoo.com